Here's what I don't get - where is the profit in stealing a bunch of school buses and shredding them? If you're going to go through the considerable effort/planning needed to steal 8 school buses, don't you need to have some plan more interesting than shredding them for scrap metal?

balloot:Here's what I don't get - where is the profit in stealing a bunch of school buses and shredding them? If you're going to go through the considerable effort/planning needed to steal 8 school buses, don't you need to have some plan more interesting than shredding them for scrap metal?

balloot:Here's what I don't get - where is the profit in stealing a bunch of school buses and shredding them? If you're going to go through the considerable effort/planning needed to steal 8 school buses, don't you need to have some plan more interesting than shredding them for scrap metal?

There's actually pretty good money in shredded steel.We know: The guy had stolen, blank vehicle title certificates and had shredded the busses knowing they were stolenAssume: The excavator is stolen which is very hard to prove, especially for the older ones. The shredder is stolen. This guy is probably in the business of finding dead vehicles around the city and swiping them for scrap, hence the need for the stolen certs. Nobody is going to care about stripped out cars vanishing from the side streets, right? I'll betcha this dude has been doing this exact scam for decades with people's cars and such.

balloot:Here's what I don't get - where is the profit in stealing a bunch of school buses and shredding them? If you're going to go through the considerable effort/planning needed to steal 8 school buses, don't you need to have some plan more interesting than shredding them for scrap metal?

You can get some quick cash that is pretty nice. The best way is to part them out but it's riskier and more time consuming.

Deathfrogg:balloot: Here's what I don't get - where is the profit in stealing a bunch of school buses and shredding them? If you're going to go through the considerable effort/planning needed to steal 8 school buses, don't you need to have some plan more interesting than shredding them for scrap metal?

There's actually pretty good money in shredded steel.We know: The guy had stolen, blank vehicle title certificates and had shredded the busses knowing they were stolenAssume: The excavator is stolen which is very hard to prove, especially for the older ones. The shredder is stolen. This guy is probably in the business of finding dead vehicles around the city and swiping them for scrap, hence the need for the stolen certs. Nobody is going to care about stripped out cars vanishing from the side streets, right? I'll betcha this dude has been doing this exact scam for decades with people's cars and such.

Gyrfalcon:Deathfrogg: balloot: Here's what I don't get - where is the profit in stealing a bunch of school buses and shredding them? If you're going to go through the considerable effort/planning needed to steal 8 school buses, don't you need to have some plan more interesting than shredding them for scrap metal?

There's actually pretty good money in shredded steel.We know: The guy had stolen, blank vehicle title certificates and had shredded the busses knowing they were stolenAssume: The excavator is stolen which is very hard to prove, especially for the older ones. The shredder is stolen. This guy is probably in the business of finding dead vehicles around the city and swiping them for scrap, hence the need for the stolen certs. Nobody is going to care about stripped out cars vanishing from the side streets, right? I'll betcha this dude has been doing this exact scam for decades with people's cars and such.

Mrbogey:balloot: Here's what I don't get - where is the profit in stealing a bunch of school buses and shredding them? If you're going to go through the considerable effort/planning needed to steal 8 school buses, don't you need to have some plan more interesting than shredding them for scrap metal?

You can get some quick cash that is pretty nice. The best way is to part them out but it's riskier and more time consuming.

This.I don't know what the market is for school bus parts, but there is always a buyer for shredded metal and it is a pretty quick turn around. I'm willing to bet that if the police didn't get there when they did, all of the metal would have been gone by the weekend.

I seriously doubt the CPD had some seekrit investigation going on that uncovered a massive bus stealing conspiracy. When I see stories like this here in Chicago I figure the cops caught a thief who was turned in by a 2nd thief who wanted to steal the stuff that the first thief got to before him.

I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt that the scrapyard owner and employees may have just been too lazy to verify the source of their latest acquisitions, but from the way they reacted when the cops arrived? Yeah, these guys are buttholes and they knew exactly what they did was criminal. A lot of crackheads are pissed off at losing a place where they could unload their stolen scrap with no questions asked.

I've got a scrap yard CSB, vehicles sold in the state of Georgia older than 1985 do not require a title, a hand written bill of sale will suffice, I was working for a scrap yard that actually played by the rules from what I saw when I was there, (I spent 4 weeks installing the new state mandated scrap metal seller identification computer system), and almost every week some derelict would show up in a late 70s early 80s car with no plates, a hot wired ignition, and a bill of sale written on notebook paper. They were always turned away.

Deathfrogg:balloot: Here's what I don't get - where is the profit in stealing a bunch of school buses and shredding them? If you're going to go through the considerable effort/planning needed to steal 8 school buses, don't you need to have some plan more interesting than shredding them for scrap metal?

There's actually pretty good money in shredded steel.We know: The guy had stolen, blank vehicle title certificates and had shredded the busses knowing they were stolenAssume: The excavator is stolen which is very hard to prove, especially for the older ones. The shredder is stolen. This guy is probably in the business of finding dead vehicles around the city and swiping them for scrap, hence the need for the stolen certs. Nobody is going to care about stripped out cars vanishing from the side streets, right? I'll betcha this dude has been doing this exact scam for decades with people's cars and such.

There was a scrap yard owner who did this in cincy about 20 years back. Him and a couple of good ol boys would drive the highways at night in tow trucks looking for vehicles left on the side of the road. Take them back to the yard and shred em. Took several years and a bait car operation to bring em down.